There is no need for a company to contract for this anymore, the churnalism section of any high school can do everything required to make the yearbook for free and it can just be a part of their coursework – in fact, it SHOULD be considering it’s the professional skill they’ve selected.
Why the fuck do class pictures still exist. If there is no school newspaper at any given high school (I did mine in middle school) then homeroom teachers can just gather up the room’s selfies and verify they’re legit.
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Whether the specific ‘Epstein’ claims are true or not, this is exactly why we need corporate skepticism. Lifetouch is owned by Shutterfly, which is owned by Apollo Global Management—a firm whose former CEO, Leon Black, reportedly paid Epstein $158M for ‘advice’ even after his first conviction.
Parents have every right to be livid that a massive private equity firm with those kinds of ties has any proximity to our kids’ data. We need to stop the half-measures: Every single document and flight log needs to be released and investigated ASAP. No more protected names, no more redacted files. If you were in that orbit, you need to go down. Schools are right to pull these contracts—if there’s even a 1% chance that this corporate web compromise our kids, we shut it down and handle it in-house.
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There is no need for a company to contract for this anymore, the churnalism section of any high school can do everything required to make the yearbook for free and it can just be a part of their coursework – in fact, it SHOULD be considering it’s the professional skill they’ve selected.
Why the fuck do class pictures still exist. If there is no school newspaper at any given high school (I did mine in middle school) then homeroom teachers can just gather up the room’s selfies and verify they’re legit.
Whether the specific ‘Epstein’ claims are true or not, this is exactly why we need corporate skepticism. Lifetouch is owned by Shutterfly, which is owned by Apollo Global Management—a firm whose former CEO, Leon Black, reportedly paid Epstein $158M for ‘advice’ even after his first conviction.
Parents have every right to be livid that a massive private equity firm with those kinds of ties has any proximity to our kids’ data. We need to stop the half-measures: Every single document and flight log needs to be released and investigated ASAP. No more protected names, no more redacted files. If you were in that orbit, you need to go down. Schools are right to pull these contracts—if there’s even a 1% chance that this corporate web compromise our kids, we shut it down and handle it in-house.